By Pete Walton
Gastonia, NC – April 24, 2010 – Friday night’s United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear winged sprint car event makes history as the USCS race with the most ever female sprint car entries (3)in the series 14-year history. But, the significance may just not stop there. All three of the female sprint car drivers have the potential to land in victory lane at the end of the 30-laps around the red clay 4/10 mile oval.
Possibly the most well known of the three drivers is Erin Crocker Evernham from Mooresville, North Carolina. The former Erin Crocker had her name change since last August after marrying famed NASCAR Championship Crew Chief and car-owner Ray Evernham. Erin Crocker Everham has a resume that includes not only Superspeedway experience in two of NASCARs top divisions and as a driver in ARCA, but is more noted for her accomplishments in winged sprint cars.
Erin Crocker was the first woman to ever qualify for the Knoxville Nationals or to win a World of Outlaws main event.
She has a number of victories in winged sprint cars in other series as well.
Jessica Zemken from Spakers, New York has competed at the highest levels of sprint car racing and has won races at the regional level in both winged sprint cars and open wheel Modified cars. She is presently racing in a Tony Stewart Racing team car.
Morgan Turpen is a seventeen year-old candidate for USCS Rookie of the Year and is presently third in the United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear National point standings while leading the chase for Rookie of the Year. She has one sprint car feature win in a non-wing sprint car at Riverside Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas.
All three of these top sprint car racers who just happen to be women will compete for the win on Friday night at Carolina Speedway in Gastonia, NC.www.carolinaspeedway.net A top ten finish by all three women drivers is a very real possibility and probability. They then hope to move on to Travelers Rest Speedway www.trspeedway.net with the series on Saturday night for Round #2 of Thunder in the Carolinas For a complete USCS sprint car schedule please visit www.uscsracing.com